History of the Emoji

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Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because before there were emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons were the pictorial representation of a facial expression by using things like punctuation marks, numbers, and letters. The earliest use of emoticons can be traced all the way back to the 17th century when a Slovak notary used one to indicate his satisfaction with the state of his town's financial records. In 1862, The New York Times also allegedly used an emoticon in this snippet of a speech transcript. And some of the first emoticons representing various moods were publish in an 1881 issue of Puck magazine.

So it’s clear that using symbols to represent facial expressions isn’t a modern concept, but it did become more popular with the advent of the computer. The first American Standard Code for Information Interchange emoticons, or ASCII for short which is essentially just an encoding standard, were written by Scott Fahlman in 1982, he thought they’d help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes by using the smiley face and frown face. And the symbols caught on...

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30 views in the first 30 seconds...! Is that you, notification squad??

AppleExplained

*”tHeY FiRsT aPpEaReD In 1999”*
Thumbnail: *1982*

opalxi

You forgot that the Nintendo ds lite chat room used emojis!

MotorHeadTech

I still use the emoticons (the "1986" ones), they're super cute! ( ﾉ╹ヮ╹)ﾉ

scarlightAnimations

Emoji and the Walkman (personal HI-FI stereo as a concept, although no longer tape based) are the two Japanese innovations that I could not imagine doing without today.

jamesslick

2:52 i like how he didn't use an original emoji for a computer because you are watching this on a

KO_Manic

i love these kinds of videos! keep up the good work 🙂

telepathiq

Sister: hey girl! 😋
Me: hey! °∆°
Sister: wth
Me: it's a fricking surprised face -_-
Sister: AND WTH IS -_-
me: mk bye.

yakinemutta

5:23 see that old smiling with teeth showing emoji? i still remember it. i first saw it on whatsapp. good old days .. i grew up with it and the rest of old emojis ❤

harukapologist

I have gun emoji🔫
edit: I don't have gun emoji

eggegggegg

*Something other than a "peach" LMAO we know.😂💀*

msny

So that's what emojis grandpa looks like

Sara-my

i found this channel yesterday and man, it's really amazing and interesting. keep it real!

anevemtede

The Kik messenger is a bit dated, but despite only having 21 yellow emotion faces (not official Emojis in any way), many of its app-specific "smileys" had very original and distinct expressions that I wish I could express with Unicode emojis.

For example:
- There's five Unicode emojis with a tongue stuck out, but they're all smiling, we need one with a tongue out that's either serious or frowning to convey everything from "ew, yuck" to "sucks to be you, man" xP :P

- A kawaii yellow emoji that could effectively take the place of things like :3 and x3

- A confused emoji that's more shocked and less intellectual-looking (like the raised eyebrow emoji is); something more similar to the :S emoticon

- A blushing emoticon that's not smiling and more bashful and embarrassed, kind of like the "face with wide open eyes" but with more blush and perhaps looking off to the side embarrassed

- A menacing grin without the purple color and devil horns would be nice

- A zipped-lips emoji would be funny

- An angry red emoji with its mouth open shouting

myowncomputerstuff

I remember a children's activity calendar from 1977. On one page, it said, "In this circle, write the expression "ten over ten equals one" and turn it 90 degrees. Then in another circle, write "sixteen over sixteen minus zero" and rotate it.

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